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...influential Republican Party that bills itself as "the party of honest people," resigned after being notified he was under criminal investigation. Earlier, the chief financial officer for Fiat, Italy's largest private employer, was arrested along with another top executive. Both maintain their innocence. Ex-Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, who has received eight notifications that he is suspected of corruption offenses, was forced out last month as head of the Italian Socialist Party. Rome, Milan and Naples are without mayors because of the scandal. Three Cabinet Ministers tainted by association have stepped down. Prime Minister Giuliano Amato was reduced last...
...kickbacks known as Operation Clean Hands. That hope vanished when Martelli learned that he too has been fingered in the probe. Though he insists he is innocent, Martelli resigned from both the Cabinet and the party. When the Socialists met to choose a successor to disgraced leader Bettino Craxi, charged with six counts of corruption, they turned instead to Giorgio Benvenuto, 55, a veteran union official...
...Socialists are not the only party touched by corruption. An informant told investigators that Arnaldo Forlani, an ex-Prime Minister and former head of the Christian Democrat Party, had conspired with Craxi to split payoffs for government contracts. Forlani denied the charges. And members of the Italian Social Democratic Party are suspected of accepting illegal contributions. The damage wrought by the ongoing scandals may be irreparable. Italian newspaper headlines are flatly proclaiming the end of the First Republic, as Italy's postwar democracy is known. With 51 governments since 1945, it would be hard for the second republic...
...campaign meeting in Toulouse. But in Europe candidates still rely on speeches at mass rallies; in California politicians talk not about districts but about television markets. More important, European politicking is ideological, while campaigning in the U.S. tends to be pragmatic. As former Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi once told Bonfante: "Ours is a politics of ideas. Yours is a politics of problem solving. We certainly could use more of yours, and you would be better off with at least some of ours...
...elections for the European Parliament. Occhetto must still win approval for his proposal at a congress in January, overcoming resistance from an Old Guard that remains proud to be red. A week earlier, Occhetto's rival on the left, Socialist leader Bettino Craxi, upstaged the divided Communists by announcing that his party would henceforth be known as Socialist Unity...